I wonder why they picked that name since it is already what the Raspberry PI's version of Debian [Raspbian] is called.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

From the webpage above
Raspbian “wheezy”

If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Alex and Dom, based on the Raspbian optimised version of Debian, and containing LXDE, Midori, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

Works like a charm on my Ipad 3. I've been waiting for this FOREVER....well since I accidentally upgraded to 6.0.1 without backing it up first :(

In a few words, I like it. I actually like it a lot. I don't own a tablet or laptop, just a bunch of desktops, and I like it. Do I care for Modern UI or whatever metro is called now? No, not really. I paid the 5 bucks and bought Start8 so I don't even have to know it's even there. [yes I KNOW there are free alternatives, but free to me doesn't always equate to better]. I got used to the "no glass" aero and actually prefer it now. I find it faster and even more stable than 7 [though 7 is rock solid too so it's kind of hard to quantify that last part].

Thing is I have not been a "start menu" user for a long time. I have 3 big monitors and have always just pinned icons to my desktop of most things I use and it never clutters up my primary screen.

I also noticed something, Back when I beta tested NT4, when the beta was over I stayed running 4. When beta testing 2000 and it finished I stayed in 2000. When beta testing XP and it was over I went back to 2000. When beta testing Vista and it was over I went back to XP. When beta testing 7 and it was over I stayed in 7 and with this BS public beta testing in 8 I actually stayed in 8. So many of these self entitled cry babies killed MS beta testing. "WHERE'S MY FREE COPY BOO HOO". Anyways

8 is not a bad OS at all, and unlike Vista does not deserve the bad rap everyone is giving it. If you don't like Modern, then don't use it, it's that simple. Plenty of other good things TO like about it,

yah this is the 1st post I have ever been modded down for. Lol kind of funny. I wasn't really even bashing it, just stating some facts. Yes there are "cheaper" parts I could have bought, such as a cheaper, less powerful wall wart. A cheaper and slower sdcard. A cheaper and shorter usb cable. But I wanted to give my little RPI the best I could. I did say it was cool a number of times in the post, but people see one negative word about the PI and it's downmod central. Sheesh

I got my model b last week and it's been pretty fun so far. But one thing that kinda sucks about it is its speed. Even overclocked to 1Ghz it's pretty painful to do anything on. Not to mention it wasn't 35 dollars to get it up and running. I wrote this a few days ago for another site but it is pretty relevant here too.

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How a $35 computer cost me $90 bucks..

So a long time ago I signed up to order one of these cool little Raspberry PI $35 dollar card sized computers. After a month or 2 I finally was able to order it. After a .
week or two I finally was able to hold it. After a day or two I finally was able to actually use it..

I’ll explain. It’s JUST the little pc, nothing else.

SO I had to buy the following:
1x 1k 5v USB wall wart. $20 bucks.
1x 16 Gig Class 10 SD Card $20 bucks.
1x Micro USB to USB Cable $10 bucks.

Factor in the cost of the PC with shipping $43.79 + $20 + $20 + $10 and now that $35 dollar computer is actually almost $94 bucks..

That said, it’s actually kinda cool. Not as powerful as one might like but cool none the less..
As a test I set it up running the debian installer [this took about 6 hours], setup to compile XBMC [this took about 2.5 hours] and went about compiling it..
On my main rig the compile takes all of about 8 minutes [after a make clean], on the RPI it took over 12 hours. 12 HOURS to do what my main rig can do in 8 minutes!.

Now I understand it's "only" a 35 dollar PC so one cannot expect a whole lot out of it, but in reality it's NOT a 35 dollar pc. It's a 90 dollar phone guts without the phone parts.

An Engine does not a good game make. The engine is great, what is being done WITH the engine is what I'm talking about. Roberts did Wing Commander 22 years ago and was AWESOME, then came WC2 and it was no longer his baby and instead he made Strike Commander which was pretty meh in 93 [19 years ago] WC3 and 4 [as well as privateer] were decent games if you don't put too much into the "Acting" that went into the cut scenes. Roberts wanted to do movies, but it SUCKED and now is back trying to make a couple games. I would like to think they are going to be good, but the track record doesn't bode well. 20 years of meh doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence that either of these 2 are going to be worth my 100 bucks.

I pretty much doubt this will even be CLOSE to a triple A title. Starlancer was no Wing Commander. And even though much of the problem with that game was Microsoft buying it and rushing it out the door. Though if they hadn't it would have been a case like 38 Studios, where the game never gets finished, and the devs go tits up.

wonder who they ticked off this time

Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.

"The One Laptop Per Child project has disappointed in Peru" I don't know why but that just sounds weird to me. Maybe "The One Laptop Per Child project has been a disappointment in Peru" or something, I don't know, but the way it's written just makes me want to cringe.

it's RELIABILITY issues they need to fix first. I just sent my first SSD back for RMA after only 7 months usage. An OCZ Vertex 3 MI and it was junk from day one. But just started tossing smart errors like mad. Bought a Vertex3 non MI and it's been rock solid, now I just have to wait for the other one to get back so I can re-raid them and then be happy. Another thing that sucks about SSD's are write speeds. They go from awesome on a bare drive to crap once the drive starts filling up. When I get the MI and benched it, it shows the proper 500+MB/s read/writes. When I sent it back it was showing 450+ Read and 200+ writes :( And I could feel it. This one is showing 500+ reads and about 350 writes alone wich isn't bad. When I raided the two before sending it back, I was getting about 1000+ reads and 350+ writes. The reads are pretty phenomenal but the writes are pretty meh. Hopefully when I get the replacement drive back next week [or the next :(] I'll see awesome writes again. I asked them to send me back a non-mi drive in return and they agreeed. This way I have 2 matching drives with matching firmare and matching everything :) But if last weeks test is anything to go by. I am REALLY looking forward to getting this drive back :)

didn't start out that way :( And it wasn't actually raid0, it was more like I built my media center with a 1TB drive, everything went high-def, needed more space to store my tv shows and stuff so I kept adding another 2 TB as dynamic drives to the pool until I added the last drive and started to worry. I really DID want to back it up and redo it but I didn't have enough space on the rest of my network to backup everything [not many people have a spare 6TB just laying there :(] And then this goddamn flood drove the 2TB drives to over 300 bucks each and I was like, I'll wait until they come back down, and well... poof its gone. My real big loss is about 25 virtual machines which I can not get back, the other stuff I can re-rip or whatever. But the hours lost alone suck, I really wish I had not posted but it just was like you have got to be kidding me, I'm reading about hard drives and poof a 2TB drive dies on me that same very instant [could have been 6 minutes earlier as that is what I have my system watcher poll] but now its there and there is nothing I can do about it. Worse than drunk texting I would think,

then you are the luckiest person alive. I have used seagates since there WAS seagates and over the last 5 or 6 years they have gone to shit. It's easy to say I have never had a drive fail when you only have one or two drives, but I have 10 computers most with 4 drives each, some with up to 10 drives. yes it was my fault for putting anything important on a raid0. and as I look most of what I had there is replaceable. I do keep my REALLY important stuff spread out over a few raid5's and I DO backup my just cant live without crap. Out of the last 100 or so hard drives I have bought and or sold in the last couple of years I'd have to say at LEAST 20% of the seagates have died or are showing issues, [yes all under warranty and i happen to live 10 miles from seagate's RMA center in McAllen, sp at least no shipping] about 5% of the western digitals and not one of the 5 hitachi's I have have failed. Though I still am weary of the Deathstar name. I have some seagates that are 7 years old [if not older] and work perfectly. But lately seagates BLOW. about 6 months ago I built a 6 disk raid6 with dual hotspares using 120Gig seagates and 2 have already dropped off the raid. have another raid6 using the same setup but is over a year old and 3 of those drives have dropped. I have another with 8 1TB WD 5200rpm and none of them have even hickupped using 3ware 9650SE controllers, I double and sometimes triple backup all my clients stuff, but it never becomes an issue to me unless poof it's gone. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if I can order a paddle board and see if I can get the drive to last long enough to move stuff off, but I double whammied myself this time. I didn't hardware raid, I made them dynamic disks and just kept adding them as I got them. Right now I am about 55% seagate, 40% WD and 5% other so it is slightly skewed against seagate, but the fact that I have 9 drives sitting on my bench to either RMA or pull magnets and of those ALL are seagate, all different sizes, some pata some sata but all dead says a lot about seagate.

since I can't find a delete I need to appoligize for my outburst. I was in [and still am] in a kind of shock you only feel when you realize you didn't plan ahead and lost almost 6 TB worth of data that I have accumilated over the years, all my programs sources, old websites I have done, all my games, mp3s, movies, dvd/blu-ray rips [that can take an hour + each to rip :(:(:(:(:(:(:(] But where does one backup THAT much data? Anyway sorry for the outburst, I am sorry if anyone took the time to read my post.